The 500-mile email (2002)

Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by andrewchambers on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @12:43AM (#9338820)

I was so happy to discover that units command line program, then i realized that Google already does this, it just wasn't as fun.

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Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by btilly on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @11:40AM (#9341457)

Google has units, but not detailed commentary on unit definitions.

See https://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt for that.

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Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by tim333 on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:44AM (#9339239)

yeah and units on the mac terminal doesn't recognise "3 millilightseconds" whereas Google works for "0.003 light seconds to miles"

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Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by chris_b on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @03:49AM (#9339256)

works exactly as in the blog post in fedora.

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Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by lucb1e on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @04:31AM (#9339357)

And Debian.

For Mac, try brew install gnu-units and then run gunits.

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Re:The 500-mile email (2002) by TreyHarris on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @02:36PM (#9342829)

As I wrote in the FAQ, I decorated my own units.dat (units.lib in some implementations) with lots of stuff because I like easily editing units. (Nowadays I use Emacs Calc, but I still add a bunch of my own units, like the binary prefixes like mebi, gibi, etc.)

I suspect that a lot more can convert millilightseconds to miles out-of-the-box now at least in part because of the popularity of this story over the past 13 years.

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